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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is considered a wrong writing program? Are students learning to write 5-paragraph essays in middle school?[/quote]

*strong writing program[/quote]

OP here. I am looking for actual instruction in grammar, writing style, and form. And then review by a skilled teacher, followed by revision by the kid, at least for some assignments. I'd like an overall emphasis on the importance of learning to express oneself clearly, efficiently, and correctly. I worry a lot of what my kid is learning right now is more about "feel" and less explicit instruction. She can tell me that a certain sentence or phrase looks wrong and can often make it better but she has no idea why, including that she doesn't know the names of many parts or speech or style conventions. [/quote]

I think you will find the responses on this thread to limited, especially those that tout certain schools but without details. In general, schools are not teaching grammar like they used to (no one is diagramming sentences anymore.) Maybe you can look into how integrated writing is throughout the middle school curriculum, not just Language Arts. There should be significant emphasis on writing and research skills in History. My kid also had to write lab reports in science and occasional short essays in math.[/quote]

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